14 | Tuesday, August 4, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY BUSINESS SIX PRIORITIES PC maker Beijing steps up efforts to boost use to ensure normal of Phytium supplies of vegetables processors

By DU JUAN By YANG CHENG in Tianjin [email protected] 22,000 [email protected] tons Beijing has adopted measures to maximum daily vegetable China Greatwall Technology ensure vegetable supplies for its supply from other regions Group Co Ltd, a domestic per­ residents after the Xinfadi whole­ since late June in Beijing sonal computer maker, sale market suspended operations revealed an ambitious plan to due to the detection of a local clus­ manufacture up to 4 million ter of COVID­19 infections in June. find supplies in other areas. units of PCs with a homegrown The major seven wholesale mar­ On June 18, the first batch of independent Phytium central kets in the city raised their daily green vegetables from neighbor­ processing unit and a Kylin total supply of vegetables to 15,000 ing Hebei province were put on operating system by the end of metric tons from 8,000 tons dur­ shelves in Beijing’s supermarkets. this year. ing the past month, the Beijing Those vegetables were directly “The new PCs are set to aid Municipal Commerce Bureau said transported from the planting bas­ the optimization of China’s on July 25. es in Hebei to Beijing by truck. Employees perform experiments using semiconductors at a high­tech company’s production unit in cyberspace security,” Song Li­ “Beijing has been keeping a Beijing managed to meet Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, in February. WANG YUGUO / XINHUA ding, the president of the com­ demand­and­supply balance of demand as 13 provinces are provid­ pany, said at an event marking vegetables since late June with a ing vegetables for the city. Large­ the first unit of the Greatwall daily supply of 20,000 to 22,000 scale supermarkets in the city have PC with the domestically pro­ tons,” the bureau said. acted swiftly to increase orders duced Phytium CPU and Kylin “The prices of beans, Chinese from producing areas instead of operating system to roll off the cabbages and many other kinds of from the wholesale markets. Wuhan high­tech zone production line in the city of vegetables are even lower than The Beijing Jingkelong Super­ Tianjin in late July. they were in the same period last market Chain Co tripled direct The domestic computer mar­ year when there was no epidemic,” purchases of vegetables from ket has been dominated by the said Lin Fan, a local resident in Hebei and Shandong provinces to Windows CPU and Intel operat­ Beijing. “I thought the price would ensure stable and orderly food ing system. Local governance be higher than usual, but it’s not supplies in the capital. key to Hubei’s recovery and cybersecurity have no actually.” Shi Guoqing, the procurement threshold for those foreign With a size of 1.12 square kilome­ manager of Carrefour’s North Chi­ COVID­19 impact limited on emerging CSOT, a leading television panel brands. ters, roughly equivalent to 157 soc­ na region, made countless calls to supplier and subsidiary of home The company invested 100 cer fields, the Xinfadi farm produce increase orders from producing optical communication sector in region appliances giant TCL, said it will million yuan ($14.2 million) in market used to supply more than bases on June 12, the day when the further increase its investment in its Tianjin production base and 80 percent of agricultural produce first new local case was reported, a By FAN FEIFEI in Beijing Wuhan. At this time, the company its annual production capacity for the nation’s capital. report by the Beijing Evening and LIU KUN in Wuhan has two panel production lines in could hit 300,000 units with an The market was immediately News said. It (Optics Valley) also Wuhan. industrial revenue of up to 1.8 closed on June 13 for disinfection A total of 18 large­scale super­ High­tech industries and the digi­ As China’s first Gen 6 LTPS (low billion yuan during the first after the city reported the first markets in Beijing, including Car­ tal economy in the East Lake High­ made contributions temperature polysilicon) LCD line, phase of the project. local COVID­19 cases in a new clus­ refour, all increased direct Tech Development Zone in Wuhan, in shoring up the the T3 project produces both small Song lauded the “Chinese ter which was related to the mar­ procurement from producing are­ which is also known as the Optics and medium­sized panels aimed speed” that the first batch of the ket. as. They also promised together Valley of China, are playing a key provincial economy mainly at smart end devices. It has a PCs were manufactured and hit Wang Hongcun, an official with not to raise the prices of at least 10 role in boosting economic recovery and fostering high­ 20 percent share of the global mar­ the market within “20 days” the Beijing Municipal Commerce types of daily vegetables for a and promoting high­quality devel­ ket. since the company began pro­ Bureau, said that although the month. opment of Hubei province. quality development.” With a total investment of 39 bil­ duction in Tianjin. measures taken at Xinfadi affected City authorities have also been The emerging industries are gain­ Xiang Ligang, director­general lion yuan ($5.6 billion), the T4 The move follows another pro­ vegetable distribution, local monitoring the price fluctuations ing momentum and ushering in of the Information Consumption project in the Gen 6 flexible active duction base in Yantai, Shan­ authorities have been stepping up of daily products to ensure stable new opportunities as the revenue of Alliance, a telecom industry matrix/organic light­emitting diode dong province, which produced efforts to coordinate market supplies for the public. 485 enterprises engaged in the digi­ association or AMOLED display panel produc­ the first unit in July. With an resources. Food supplies in Beijing Some cities in neighboring tal economy sector in the zone tion line achieved mass production investment of up 2 billion yuan, can be guaranteed. Hebei province have taken steps to accounted for 84.1 percent of its ser­ on Jan 1, with 48,000 modules set to the Yantai center will see its The bureau has urgently orga­ increase supplies of agricultural vice enterprises in the zone above a equipment in the fight against be manufactured each month. annual production hit 300,000 nized six other large wholesale produce to Beijing. designated size from January to COVID­19. Li Dongsheng, TCL founder and units. markets across Beijing to increase Hebei Xinfadi, an agricultural May, said Hu Shimeng, director of Founded in 1988, the zone is now chairman, said in an earlier inter­ This year, the company began supplies and set up a temporary produce wholesale market in Baod­ the Statistics Center at the East Lake among the most innovative and view that the company also plans to investing and launching produc­ market to stabilize prices. ing owned by the Xinfadi group, set High­Tech Development Zone. fastest­growing regions in Central build a new air conditioner plant in tion in 10 centers around China, The Beijing Capital Agribusiness up a 50 million yuan ($7.17 million) The profits of software and infor­ China, collecting a batch of high­ Wuhan in a bid to boost the produc­ including Wuhan, Hubei prov­ Group set up an emergency vegeta­ fund to organize and allocate farm mation technology services in core tech industries which include opto­ tion capacity from 3 million units to ince, Zhengzhou, Henan prov­ ble supply coordination office to produce needed urgently in Beijing. industries surged by 1,065.9 percent electronic information, healthcare 5 million units every year. ince and Taiyuan, Shanxi in the January­May period on a and smart manufacturing. Chen Liteng, an analyst at domes­ province. yearly basis. The revenue of online Xiang Ligang, director­general of tic consultancy the Internet Econo­ The new batch of computers entertainment and online educa­ the Information Consumption Alli­ my Institute, said online education, will serve the rising demand of tion enterprises rose by 8.2 percent ance, a telecom industry associa­ online healthcare and other emerg­ the nation’s cybersecurity mar­ and 22.7 percent year­on­year, tion, said COVID­19 had a limited ing industries will become key driv­ ket, Song said. respectively, Hu added. impact on the high­tech and emerg­ ing forces in bolstering employment, “The company, in fact, is fac­ In the first half of the year, invest­ ing sector in Wuhan compared with stimulating investment and prop­ ing the challenges brought by ment in high­tech manufacturing other traditional service industries, ping up consumption. the shortage of talent in the industries took up 96.3 percent of adding “this thriving industry is not Chinese internet giant Tencent cybersecurity sector,” Zheng the zone’s industrial investment. labor­intensive and there is no need Holdings Ltd has also pledged to Yejun, president of the Tianjin The investment in integrated cir­ to gather a large number of workers increase investments in the fields of branch of the company under cuit manufacturing represented by in the factory”. digital government, intelligent edu­ the Greatwall Group, said. Yangtze Memory Technologies Co As a crucial link in China’s manu­ cation, smart transportation, artifi­ Li Zhening, Kylin Software Ltd, the T4 project of China Star facturing industry chain, the Optics cial intelligence and security in vice­general manager, told Chi­ Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd Valley in Wuhan plays a critical role Wuhan, with a goal of quadrupling na Daily in a previous inter­ (CSOT) and Wuhan Tianma Micro­ in the country’s optical communica­ the number of employees in the next view the company’s critical electronics Co Ltd’s G6 second tion segment, Xiang added. The rap­ three years. steps this year are to enroll phase project, increased by 38 per­ id growth of emerging industries The company will continue to massive staff in a bid to cater to cent on a yearly basis. and digital technologies such as promote the construction of the the escalating demand for the Hu said the zone has ensured the artificial intelligence, cloud comput­ Tencent (Wuhan) Digital Industry market. normal operation of production ing and big data has helped prevent Headquarters in the city, where it Kylin announced it would har­ lines of such high­tech enterprises and control the contagion. aims to embark on digital govern­ ness human resources as the during the epidemic. It also pro­ “It also made contributions in ance and smart city initiatives. company tries to establish a moted the economic rebound and shoring up the provincial economy team of over 10,000 in the next An employee arranges vegetables at a supermarket in Beijing in supported key enterprises in the and fostering high­quality develop­ Contact the writers at five years in Tianjin. June. REN CHAO / XINHUA fields of biomedicine and medical ment,” Xiang said. [email protected] Phytium and Kylin actually evolved from the Tianjin Hi­tech Area. XIAOKANG@GRASSROOTS “With the arrival of the Great Wall last month, the cybersecu­ rity market is expected to gener­ ate a combined revenue of 40 Donggang farmers reap sweet rewards from strawberry cultivation billion yuan annually in the area,” said Chen Jinhong, vice­ By ZHENG YIRAN and gram. The average price in winter is city now owns over 400 strawberry fessor at the College of Economics “Now, my whole life has changed. director of the administrative WU YONG in Donggang, Liaoning over 80 yuan per kg. cooperatives, farms and enterprises. and Management at the Northeast I have work to do every day. I make committee of Tianjin Hi­tech Renowned as “China’s first county They have over 100,000 employees. Agricultural University. 400,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan every Area. Donggang in Northeast China’s for strawberries”, Donggang is among In 2019, the strawberry produc­ In addition, the industrial cluster year. I think I have achieved Xiao­ “The sector, poised to top Liaoning province is taking advan­ the national high­quality strawberry tion area in Donggang reached 9,867 effect of the strawberry industry is kang,” she said. trillions of yuan in industrial tage of policy support, an industrial production bases along with a repu­ hectares with production of 230,000 beneficial in screening good varie­ The sales volume of strawberries output, has strong resilience to cluster and advanced technologies tation of being a pollution­free agri­ metric tons. The output value was ties and forming benign competi­ from Donggang fell at the start of the economic downturn and is to develop the strawberry industry cultural goods production base. 4.6 billion yuan and the yearly export tion, he said. the COVID­19 epidemic due to set to cement a foothold during in an effort to pursue Xiaokang, or The strawberry cultivation indus­ earnings reached $35 million. The “The development of the straw­ blocked transportation. the COVID­19 pandemic,” he moderate prosperity, in the region. try has over 80 years of history in the brand value of Donggang strawber­ berry industry helps local farmers to The local government and indus­ said. Cai Yougui, 44, a local farmer who county, serving as a local traditional ries totaled 7.8 billion yuan, it said. strive for Xiaokang. The government trial associations helped farmers Another new domestic PC contracted to run six strawberry dominant planting variety and a key “The strawberry industry has offers supportive policies, and the explore sales channels and worked producer in Tianyue announced greenhouses in 2017, now has an factor in agricultural development. become a leading industry for local industrial cluster contributes to vari­ with e­commerce platforms such as in July that its PCs with an inde­ average annual income of 2 million Donggang’s strawberry industry farmers to increase income and is ety popularization and technology Taobao and JD to enhance promo­ pendent homegrown CPU and yuan ($286,200). experienced rapid development in an important supporting force for promotion. Besides, as the industry tion. Merchants used online plat­ operating system rolled off the “My money paid back within one recent years thanks to government’s city development,” said Mu Xiufeng, develops well, local banks can offer forms such as WeChat and Douyin production lines in Shenyang, year after I contracted for the straw­ favorable policies, cooperation deputy director of the publicity targeted support,” he added. to sell strawberries, quickly turning Liaoning province, Haikou, berry greenhouses. Later on, I made between leading enterprises and department of the Donggang Li Shengfei, a local farmer who the situation around. Hainan province, and in the city more money, and my life got better farmer households, advanced technol­ municipal Party committee. contracted to run strawberry green­ Wang said that such business of Chongqing. and better,” he said. ogies, and government supervision. “Donggang is in the humid mon­ houses, said: “Having strawberry mode can also be promoted to other It announced each of the Cai noted that the first batch of The city is now China’s largest straw­ soon climate zone. The humidity greenhouses gives me a sense of rural areas in North China, setting plants’ production capacity the popular strawberries, which berry production and export base. and sunlight are suitable for straw­ security. Before planting strawber­ an example for rural revitalization. could hit 100,000 units and often come to the market at the Data from the publicity depart­ berry cultivation. The appearance ries, I couldn’t sleep well at night, the firm is planning to go into beginning of October every year, ment of the Donggang municipal and taste of the strawberries are worrying about whether I could Contact the writers at the country’s cybersecurity would sell at over 200 yuan per kilo­ Party committee showed that the attractive,” said Wang Gangyi, a pro­ have farm work to do the next day.” [email protected] market.